Nine won the night in the metros, but lost heavily to Seven in the regions. Nine won the metros because of The Footy Show which ran for two hours. The Footy Show managed 894,000 national viewers. Masterchef stood out finishing tops on the metros with 1.089 million viewers and third nationally with 1.439 million people.

Kitchen Cabinet on the ABC averaged 845,000 national viewers, with Rake on 899,000. Rake in fact just pipped The Footy Show. Cleverman debuted on the ABC at 9.30 and averaged 643,000 viewers: 452,000 in the metros and 191,000 in the regions. Hopefully it can build from that figure.

In the regions, Seven again dominated the most watched programs with Seven News tops with 626,000, Home And Away next with 486,000; Seven News/Today Tonight with 478,000; The Chaser Australia 5.30pm was on 462,000 and Nine News on 424,000

Today won metro breakfast with 355,000 viewers to Sunrise’s 327,000. Sunrise won nationally.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (27.1%)
  2. Seven (26.0%)
  3. Ten (21.7%)
  4. ABC (19.1%)
  5. SBS (6.1%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (18.3%)
  2. Ten (17.6%)
  3. Seven (16.4%)
  4. ABC (13.0%)
  5. SBS ONE 3.5%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.8%)
  2. GO (4.1%)
  3. ABC 2 (3.9%)
  4. 7mate (3.0%)
  5. Eleven (2.5%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.702million
  2. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.549 million
  3. Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.439 million
  4. Nine News — 1.427 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.232 million
  6. The Chase Australia (Seven) — 1.182 million
  7. ABC News — 1.120 million
  8. Nine News 6.30 — 1.008 million
  9. 7.30 (ABC) — 1.006 million
  10. RBT (Nine) — 958,000

Top metro programs:

  1. Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.089 million
  2. Seven News — 1.077 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.071 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.008 million
  5. Nine News — 1.004 million

Losers: Viewers generally – except for Kitchen Cabinet and Rake, and Cleverman.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1.  Seven News — 1.077 million
  2.  Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.071 million
  3. Nine News (6.30pm) — 1.008 million
  4. Nine News — 1.004 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 778,000
  6. ABC News – 746,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 678,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 637,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 487,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 459,000

Morning TV:

  1. Today (Nine) – 355,000
  2. Sunrise (Seven) – 327,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 174,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC,  101,000 + 52,000 on News 24) — 153,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 150,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 74,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox 8  (2.80%)
  2. LifeStyle  (1.9%)
  3. TVHITS  (1.9%)
  4. UKTV, Fox Classics (1.7%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 73,000
  2. NRL: 360 (Fox Sports 1) — 64,000
  3. Family Guy (Fox8) — 63,000
  4. The Simpsons (Fox8) – 59,000
  5. Coronation Street (UKTV) – 50,000

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